“Sæpe manus operi tentantes admovet, an sit Corpus, an illud ebur: nec ebur tamen esse fatetur. Oscula dat, reddique putat; loquiturque, tenetque; Et credit tactis digitos insidere membris: Et metuit, pressos veniat ne livor in artus.” Footnote 68: “Julio was an artist of vigorous, lively, active, fearless spirit, gifted with a lightness of hand which knew how to impart life and being to the bold and restless images of his fancy.” The same volume, pp. 641–5, continues the account of Romano. Footnote 69: “An important one,” says Kugler, “at Lord Northwick’s, in London.” Footnote 70: Two of Titian’s large paintings, now in the Bridgewater Gallery, represent “Diana and her Nymphs bathing.” (See Kugler, vol. ii. p. 44.) Footnote 71: See Drake’s _Shakspeare and his Times_, vol. ii. p. 119. Footnote 72: See D. Franz Kugler’s _Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei_, vol. ii. pp 44–6. ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER IV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF EMBLEM-BOOKS IN BRITAIN, AND GENERAL INDICATIONS THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THEM. MONUMENTS, or memorial stones, with emblematical figures and characters carved upon them, are of ancient date in Britain as elsewhere—probably antecedent even to Christianity itself. Manuscripts, too, ornamented with many a symbolical device, carry us back several hundred years. These we may dismiss from consideration at the present moment, and simply take up printed books devoted chiefly or entirely to Emblems. I.—Of printed Emblem-books in the earlier time down to 1598, when Willet’s _Century of Sacred Emblems_ appeared, though there were several in the English language, there were only few of pure English origin. Watson and Barclay, in 1509, gave English versions of Sebastian Brant’s _Fool-freighted Ship_. Not later than 1536, nor earlier than 1517, _The Dialogue of Creatures moralysed_ was translated “out of latyn in to our English tonge.” In 1549, at Lyons, _The Images of the Old Testament, &c._, were “set forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche;” and in 1553, from the same city, Peter Derendel gave in English metre _The true and lyvely historyke Portreatures of the woll Bible_. _The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England_, were published in small folio, London, 1557, and in them at the beginning (signature C ij_v_—C iiij) are inserted what the author names “nyne pageauntes,” which, as they existed in his father’s house about A.D. 1496, were certainly Emblems. To this list Sir Thomas North, in London, 1570, added _The Morall Philosophie of Doni_, “out of Italien;” Daniell, in 1585, _The worthy Tract of Paulus Jovius_, which Whitney, in 1586, followed up by _A Choice of Emblemes_, “Englished and moralized;” and Paradin’s _Heroicall Devises_ were “Translated out of Latin into English,” London, 1591.